Archaeology & Anthropology

To The Gold Coast for Gold: A Personal Narrative. Vol. II

Burton, Richard Francis, Sir; Cameron, Verney Lovett

The work is a two‑volume travel memoir by Sir Richard Francis Burton and Verney Lovett Cameron, chronicling…

Congo life and folklore

John H. Weeks

John H. Weeks’s work is a blend of ethnographic observation and missionary narrative that treats the brass…

Social Origins and Primal Law

Lang, Andrew; Atkinson, J. J.

The work is a scholarly treatise on the origins of marriage, totemism and early social law, assembled by…

Mythology among the Hebrews and Its Historical Development

Ignác Goldziher

The work is a scholarly treatise by Ignác Goldziher, a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, on the…

Byways in British Archaeology

Walter Johnson

Byways in British Archaeology is a scholarly survey of the lingering traces of pre‑Christian belief in the…

Dawn in darkest Africa

John H. Harris

The work is a lengthy, polemical study of European involvement in West‑African territories, written by John…

Indians of the Enchanted Desert

Leo Crane

The work is a first‑person account that blends memoir, travelogue, and a thinly veiled critique of early…

A Book of the Pyrenees

S. Baring-Gould

This work is a scholarly survey of the Pyrenees that blends geography, natural history, and cultural…

The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Vol 2 of 2) With Tunes, Singing-Rhymes, and Methods of Playing etc.

Alice Bertha Gomme

The work is a scholarly catalogue of traditional children’s games from England, Scotland and Ireland,…

Summary Narrative of an Exploratory Expedition to the Sources of the Mississippi River, in 1820 Resumed and Completed, by the Discovery of its Origin in Itasca Lake, in 1832

Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

The work is a scholarly travel narrative that assembles the author’s own journals with the notes of his…

The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 301-398

James Mooney

The work is a scholarly compilation of Cherokee ritual texts drawn from manuscripts that James Mooney…

Byzantine Constantinople, the walls of the city and adjoining historical sites

Alexander Van Millingen

Alexander Van Millingen’s work is a scholarly survey of Byzantine Constantinople’s fortifications and…

Bible animals: being a description of every living creature mentioned in the Scripture, from the ape to the coral.

J. G. Wood

Bible Animals is a scholarly catalogue that lists every creature named in the Old and New Testaments, from…

Mazes and Labyrinths: A General Account of Their History and Development

W. H. Matthews

The work is a scholarly survey of the many forms that labyrinths and mazes have taken from antiquity to the…

A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume 1 (of 2)

A. H. Smith

This volume is a scholarly catalogue of the marble sculpture held by the Department of Greek and Roman…

Ruins of Ancient Cities (Vol. 2 of 2) With General and Particular Accounts of Their Rise, Fall, and Present Condition

Charles Bucke

The work is a scholarly survey of vanished Greek metropolises, presented as a series of detailed field…

Curious Creatures in Zoology

John Ashton

The work is a Victorian‑era compendium that gathers together the legends, travelogues and early natural…

Among Congo cannibals

John H. Weeks

John H. Weeks presents a first‑hand ethnographic record of his three decades among the Boloki (also called…

The archæology of Rome, Part 8: The aqueducts

John Henry Parker

The work is a scholarly survey of Rome’s water‑supply system, focusing on the aqueducts as essential to any…

History of Brighthelmston; or, Brighton as I View it and Others Knew It With a Chronological Table of Local Events

John Ackerson Erredge

History of Brighthelmston; or, Brighton as I View it and Others Knew It is a nineteenth‑century antiquarian…

The Natural History of the Varieties of Man

R. G. Latham

The Natural History of the Varieties of Man is a scholarly ethnological survey that sets out to update and…

The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1

Various

The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893‑1 is a scholarly periodical that gathers original articles,…

Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 With Descriptions of the Recently Explored Region of Australia Felix, and of the Present Colony of New South Wales

T. L. Mitchell

Thomas Livingstone Mitchell’s Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 is a…

The Lake Dwellings of Ireland Or ancient lacustrine habitations of Erin, commonly called crannogs.

W. G. Wood-Martin

The work is a scholarly survey of Ireland’s ancient lake‑dwelling sites, known as crannogs, compiled by…